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<td class="v">7:1</td>
<td>A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.</td>
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<td class="v">7:2</td>
<td>It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.</td>
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<td class="v">7:3</td>
<td>Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.</td>
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<td class="v">7:4</td>
<td>The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.</td>
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<td class="v">7:5</td>
<td>It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.</td>
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<td class="v">7:6</td>
<td>For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.</td>
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<td class="v">7:7</td>
<td>Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.</td>
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<td class="v">7:8</td>
<td>Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.</td>
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<td class="v">7:9</td>
<td>Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.</td>
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<td class="v">7:10</td>
<td>Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.</td>
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<td class="v">7:11</td>
<td>Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.</td>
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<td class="v">7:12</td>
<td>For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.</td>
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<td class="v">7:13</td>
<td>Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?</td>
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<td class="v">7:14</td>
<td>In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.</td>
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<td class="v">7:15</td>
<td>All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.</td>
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<td class="v">7:16</td>
<td>Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?</td>
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<td class="v">7:17</td>
<td>Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?</td>
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<td class="v">7:18</td>
<td>It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.</td>
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<td class="v">7:19</td>
<td>Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.</td>
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<td class="v">7:20</td>
<td>For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.</td>
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<td class="v">7:21</td>
<td>Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:</td>
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<td class="v">7:22</td>
<td>For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.</td>
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<td class="v">7:23</td>
<td>All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.</td>
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<td class="v">7:24</td>
<td>That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?</td>
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<td class="v">7:25</td>
<td>I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:</td>
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<td class="v">7:26</td>
<td>And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.</td>
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<td class="v">7:27</td>
<td>Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:</td>
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<td class="v">7:28</td>
<td>Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.</td>
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<td class="v">7:29</td>
<td>Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.</td>
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